Jones, 28, likely is the Lions’ most tradable commodity. He’s coming off a November knee injury that limited him to nine games, but he has a cap-friendly number as a No. 1 receiver for potential trade partners. And his jettisoning could help purge yet another Jim Caldwell holdover.

But even as the Lions seem poised to hire a new offensive coordinator and continue their run-first, ball-control offense, Jones said he is committed to the Lions regardless of the scheme or his role in it.

“I’m literally happy whatever (team) I’m playing for,” he said. “And I’m playing for this team, which I love. Whatever they ask me to do, that’s what I’m going to do.

“It’s not like they’re doing something different, I’ve got to do somewhere else. I’m here. So I’m here and I like being here. And I feel like no matter what offense it is, the offense that we’ve had, we’ve been successful, that’s what I do.”

In Matt Patricia’s first season, the offense took a big step back. Even though they retained offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter from Caldwell's staff, the Lions moved to a more ball-control philosophy and went from ranking 13th overall in 2017 to 24th this year, and from seventh in scoring to 25th.

“We just need to be consistent,” Jones said. “All of us need to be consistent. It’s all about this year going forward and what we’re going to do.”

The Lions finished 6-10 and struggled to gain momentum at any point in Patricia’s rookie season. But Jones said the transition from Caldwell to Patricia wasn’t difficult.

“I don’t think so,” he said. “It was just a transition, like in the league. In everybody’s job, there’s always transition.”

As for changes in his own job, Jones said his resume speaks for itself. He’s willing and able to do different things next season, if he’s asked to, as a “complete receiver.”

“It doesn’t matter what they ask me to do or what I’m going to do in the future, I’m going to be good at it,” he said. “And that’s how competitive I am to do those things. Before I was here, OK, yeah, I caught a couple deep balls. But I worked mostly short to intermediate routes in Cincy. That’s what I did. I took reverses. I did all that stuff. I’ve done everything.

“So now I come here, I catch a couple go balls and now that’s all I could do? Nah. I could do everything. I’m excited to get right, to come back and just be the best all-around receiver because I know I have what it takes to do that.”

Jones admitted the season was a disappointment for the team.

“No team wants to finish how we finished,” he said. “And obviously that’s disappointing, just because this year you could tell this year there were games we looked like we were going to be a team to be reckoned with at the end. And stuff happens, the ebb and flows of the game and stuff. It was disappointing.

“We don’t want to be 6-10. And our goal is to be way better than that because we know we have that team that could beat anybody. So that’s a disappointment.”

Jones ended the season on injured reserve and wouldn’t say when he planned to begin his offseason training, although he might work again with Hall of Fame receiver Randy Moss.

“I’ll just be ready next season and I’ll be ready to be one of the best,” he said. “Every time you talk to me, that’s what I say. I want to be the best for this team and I want to be the best in the league, and that’s not going to stop. I just have to come back and do it.”

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